For some reason ships, including some with an admiral, seem to decide to just leave their fleet. I add them back and they tend to leave.

Then with autorefill on for fleets, I started building a bunch of ships to replace those who left the fleet. All over the place.

So I have fleets that lost their ...

I built a colony, and after a few years discovered the destroyed troop transport.

I can understand the Boskara eliminating the scouting party on an uninhabited planet, but I would have thought a few hundred million Mortalen backed by a planetary admin center and some troops would have put up a ...

Are ambassadors no longer able to pick up the espionnage skill when stationed at an espionnage target?

They have always gotten it after the first successful espionnage mission, now after half a dozen my ambassador has not gained it.

I also noted that in the events log for the ambassador, it no ...

Ships will now path through nebula for trips way before they are able to do so safely.

I have a bunch of ships trying to path through an ion storm in the early game where they wind up stuck out of power.

I find that I regularly have to check on my construction ships, as they will often go (no mission) after completing a task despite their being plenty of other build tasks queued. They are all set to fully automate. I have to manually tell them to move a bit away from whatever they last built, reset ...

Thanks Michael, I had forgotten about using the infrastructure list, that will help.

The planetary upgrade process really, really, really needs some love, especially the planetary admin line.

1) You have to individually go to each planet, click on the existing facility and hit upgrade (which also is not at all obvious for a new player). An option to upgrade all would certainly be ...

The only guide to calculating max pop I can find states that is outdated, does anyone know the calculation or where to find an up-to-date guide?

I am curious as my homeworld size 4,575, quality 62%, suitability 47% (Ackdarian on deep water) has theoretical max from the planet page of 8,165M but in ...

You don't run a tax surplus for quite some time, or at least I don't, which means no extra funding for colony growth or research for a while.

However I do tend to get plenty o'cash from bonus income to the treasury, and it would be nice to be able to direct some of that into colony growth or ...

Is there some way to tell a colony ship what race of colonists to load up from on a multi-racial world?

Auto-colonization is annoyingly not always choosing the appropriate race for the target planet.

I'm currently 'fixing' that by just using the game editor ro change the race to the appropriate ...

That's pretty good then

Just curious if anyone knows if this works with spies on a mission, i.e. if you are doing a mission against an empire will it apply to spies on missions against the same empire, will it help out the other empire's characters at that location (assuming it would be their capital).

Ok, cool.

So started blowing up gravilexes with my first fleet and noticed that once destroyed they leave a carcass and bits of themselves on the map. I am going to assume the other creatures do as well.

I didn't see anyone trying to collect the pieces, so I manually ordered an explorer to collect the bits ...